Ganesh Biradar

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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Ganesh Biradar is a senior embedded software engineer based in Hyderabad with 8–9 years of experience building low-level firmware and backend systems across product companies. He has shipped embedded solutions at firms like FossilShale, Intrinsyc, and Lantronix, bringing a hardware-aware mindset to software design and a consistent track record of first-class academic performance in ECE. Beyond firmware, he contributes to high-profile open-source projects such as CockroachDB, where he enhanced changefeed timestamp handling, added Parquet support, and introduced scheduled changefeeds—demonstrating comfort with distributed databases and data pipelines. He combines practical embedded systems expertise with backend engineering skills, making him effective at bridging device-level constraints and cloud-native architectures. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he often focuses on robust timestamp and data-consistency issues that are easy to miss but crucial in production.

8 years of coding experience

6 years of employment as a software developer

ssc, ssc at St. Pauls Hi-Tech High School

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronic and Communication Engineering, First Class with Distinction, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronic and Communication Engineering, First Class with Distinction at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad

Diploma, Applied Electronic and Instrumentation, First class, Diploma, Applied Electronic and Instrumentation, First class at Quli Qutub Shah Government Polytechnic College

English, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu

Github Skills (7)

go10

sql10

distributed-database9

databases8

parquet8

database8

cockroachdb8

Programming languages (4)

CJavaScriptGoPython

Github contributions (5)

cockroachdb/cockroach

Jul 2021 - Dec 2022

CockroachDB — the cloud native, distributed SQL database designed for high availability, effortless scale, and control over data placement.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer / Database Engineer

Contributions:32 reviews, 11 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 4 months

Contributions summary:Ganesh contributed to the CockroachDB project by implementing and improving the changefeed functionality. Their work involved enhancing the changefeed's cursor mechanism for timestamp handling, particularly addressing scenarios with negative timestamp values. They also improved the alteration of changefeeds by correctly using the highwater timestamp to fetch table descriptors, and added support for parquet format, a columnar storage format, to changefeeds. Finally, the user added the ability to schedule changefeeds through the `CREATE SCHEDULE FOR CHANGEFEED` statement, acting like cron jobs.

distributed-sqldistributed-sql-databasemysqlsql-databasesql

biradarganesh25/Gesture-Recognition

Jan 2018 - Aug 2021

Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months

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